| Description | Copy will of Frances Bedingfield of Hammersmith, spinster
Bequests are as follows:
1. 20s. to the poor
2. To Mrs Cecily Cornwallis "my dear friend", her house and gardens in Hammersmith plus
contents and "all debts due to me from the parents of children who have been there
educated"
3. To Dorothy Bedingfield "my beloved niece", her house and gardens in York plus contents
and "all debts due to me from the parents of children who have been there educated"
4. To the said Cecily Cornwallis and Dorothy Bedingfield (her executors), the "donative" of
£100 yearly left her by the late Sir Thomas Gascoine, to be divided equally "for the
maintenance of those who shall employ their labour and pains in breeding up of children in
piety and learning in the foresaid houses", provided that "when a third house shall be
erected by them for the same purpose" the money is divided into equal thirds
Witnesses: Walter Travers, Bridget Godbold, Mary Saunders, Elizabeth Clarke
On dorse: Query re entitlement of the "gentlewomen of the school in Hammersmith, having continued to employ their labour and pains in breeding up of children… ever since Mrs Cornwallis went to York, as much as they did when she lived with them at Hammersmith" to a continued share in the £100 yearly |